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What's up everyone?
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In this video you're going to learn a ton of useful words and phrases about natural disasters.
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The way you're going to learn them is through a true story about a girl who predicted a natural disaster.
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back in 2004.
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It's a really amazing story.
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I think you'll really like it.
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And then after that, we'll talk about Typhoon Yegi,
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which was one of the biggest storms in Southeast Asia in 2024.
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So you'll learn a lot of useful and interesting vocabulary from that story.
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And also you can get all of the vocabulary words plus the entire transcript for this podcast by clicking the link below.
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But make sure you listen to the podcast first.
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And then when you're finished, just click the link below.
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Put in your name, your email, and your English learning goal.
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free PDF straight to your email.
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Alright, so let's get started with the first story.
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This story begins on December 26th, 2004.
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It was the day after Christmas.
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And there was a 10 -year -old girl named Tilly Smith, and she was on vacation with her parents,
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Penny and Colin Smith, along with her sister, Penny.
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Holly Smith They're on vacation in Thailand at a place called Maikau Beach.
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and this beach is beautiful, right?
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The sun is shining, the sand is white, and the beach is a nice turquoise blue.
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Everything looks really nice on that day because of the beautiful beach and the nice weather,
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the Smith family decided to take a nice long walk on the beach in the morning.
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But.. as they were walking along the beach Tilly looked at the ocean
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and she noticed that something was different about the ocean.
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when she looked at the water, it looked really frothy, like really bubbly.
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Do you know when you wash dishes and you have all the bubbles from washing the dishes and the soap?
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That's how the ocean looked.
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There were all these bubbles.
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in the water Not only that,
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but the water was not calm as they thought it would be and I something really weird was that the tide
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which usually comes in and out, right?
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You're at a beach, the water comes in and out, but instead it just kept on going out.
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Like it wasn't coming in.
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The water had moved out out really far.
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so far that you could actually see a lot of the sand that you usually would not be able to see.
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So imagine you're walking along the beach and then you realize the water just isn't there anymore.
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It moved way far back.
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And not just that, but there's all these bubbles like someone was washing dishes in the ocean It looked really strange.
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And when Tilly saw these signs, like the water far back and the bubbles,
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she started to get really nervous.
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The reason she started feeling nervous was because she remembered a lesson from her science class just a few weeks ago,
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and in that lesson, the teacher was explaining what it meant when you saw these signs.
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So because of this, Tilly starts getting scared and she goes to her parents and she tells them,
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"We need to get off the beach right now.
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This is really dangerous.
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This is urgent.
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We need to go." Tilly stayed calm, but she wanted her parents to know how serious this was.
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But, you know, since she was a 10 -year -old girl, her parents were like, "Yeah,
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okay, Tilly," and just kept on walking.
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They ignored what she was saying at first.
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Because of this, Tilly started becoming more hysterical,
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like more panicked to the point that that she just sat down on the sand.
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She wouldn't walk anymore.
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And she just told her parents, like, please, we need to go.
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I know.
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what this means and it's not good.
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So finally, her parents kind of started to listen.
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Her mom kept walking.
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However, her father, started to feel...
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a little nervous and he said fine let's go back to the hotel and let's talk to the staff.
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So then Tilly, with her father, went back to the hotel,
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and they told a security guard about what Tilly was worried about.
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They told him that...
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You know, the signs on the beach of the bubbles in the water
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and the water being really far back from the shore was a sign of something really bad.
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What they said to the security guard was that there was going to be a tsunami.
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At that time, there was actually a Japanese guy who was right there while they were talking to the security guard.
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Tsunami is a Japanese word, and that Japanese guy knew what it meant.
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And he said, "Actually, yeah, there was an earthquake in Sumatra not long ago,
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so your daughter is probably right." So then people finally started to take Tilly seriously.
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The security guard went out to the beach and he started waving the people to come back to the hotel to safety.
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Because of that, they were able to evacuate dozens of people from the beach.
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Not only that, but Tilly's father also ran back to get his wife and her sister.
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And he told them, like, get back here, get back here.
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There's a tsunami coming.
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So luckily, the family was able to make it to the second floor of the hotel when the tsunami hit.
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When the tsunami hit, it was huge.
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They described it as a wall of water 30 feet high.
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As you may know, a tsunami is a giant wave, basically, right?
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And so that giant wave, that tsunami, crashed into the hotel
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and destroyed everything in its path the family was able to get to the second floor
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and go out on the balcony to see the wave basically destroy everything that was around them.
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So just a few minutes before that, you had a nice beach that was calm, you know, tourists walking around,
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relaxing, taking photos, and then just minutes later, Everything was gone.
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Everything was swept away.
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the area was completely flooded, full of debris.
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and debris is just things, right?
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It could be beach chairs, it could be umbrellas.
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The whole area was destroyed in just seconds.
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Now you may know about this tsunami.
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It was a really devastating natural disaster.
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It took about 230 ,000 lives across a few different countries in Southeast Asia.
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And in Thailand alone, there were around 5 ,000 fatalities. But...
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The amazing thing is that on Maikau Beach, which was the beach that Tilly and her family were on,
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There were some injuries, but there were no fatalities.
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No one passed away because of what Tilly did.
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After the tsunami happened, of course, the aftermath was really bad.
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They had tons of cleanup to do.
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Water was contaminated.
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Many people were left homeless.
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The bright side is that on that beach, "No one passed away." So after this happened,
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the story of Tilly became quite famous
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and she was called the Angel of the Beach by the news outlets basically across the world.
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her parents in interviews later on said that they were convinced they would have
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passed away if Tilly wasn't there to warn them.
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and likely many other people on the beach would have passed away as well because before it happened,
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No one had any idea.
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all the tourists were just walking around and some even thought it was insane interesting that, oh, look like the water.
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Moved back.
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Huh.
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That's cool.
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And you know, they would be walking around, maybe picking up shells or taking photos of this strange phenomenon.
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And so if Tilly wasn't there to warn everyone, then it likely would have been much worse.
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Since this event, many countries have installed more systems to be able to detect when a tsunami is coming,
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and hopefully that will help prevent devastating deaths.
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natural disasters like this in the future.
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- Thank you.
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And this allows you to repeat each section so you can practice as many times as you need.
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Okay, now let's talk about Typhoon Yagi.
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So as many of you may know, Typhoon Yagi was one of the worst storms of 2024.
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This storm started near an island called Palau on August 31st, 2024.
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and Palau is around 2 ,200 kilometers from Vietnam.
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when this storm started, It was...
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Of course, just a small storm.
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But as it went over warm ocean water,
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it started to become more powerful to the point where it became more what they call a super typhoon.
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And at this point, it had winds blowing at...
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around 260 kilometers per hour.
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And that's really fast.
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So, You may have heard a few different words like, Typhoon Hurricane, and Cyclone.
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All of these words are essentially the same thing.
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They're all big spinning storms.
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But the difference between them is just where they happen.
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So for example, A typhoon normally happens around Asia,
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whereas a hurricane happens in around North America,
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and a cyclone happens near Australia.
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The only difference is where they are, but they're all the same thing, just big.
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spinning storms that form over warm ocean water.
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Okay, so back to Typhoon Yegi.
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After it left Palau, it first hit the Philippines.
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And in the Philippines, it caused a lot of flooding.
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And then after it passed the Philippines, it hit China.
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where it destroyed a ton of buildings because of the really strong winds.
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And then after that, it started to make its way towards Vietnam.
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And the day that it hit Vietnam was on September 7th.
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This storm was Crazy.
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because it had the fastest winds ever recorded on land in Vietnam.
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Now, luckily...
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Before the storm came, Vietnam was able to evacuate a lot of people from the northern coastal areas.
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Specifically, they evacuated around 50 ,000 people.
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And when this storm hit Vietnam, it caused a lot of damage not only because of the strong winds,
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but there was a lot of heavy rain as well.
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This heavy rain caused a lot of landslides, and as the word sounds,
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a landslide is when dirt and rocks slides down a hill or a mountain because of the heavy rain.
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And obviously, this disaster can be very dangerous.
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There was also a lot of flooding and there were many power outages in many different areas.
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A power outage is when you lose electricity.
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You lose power somewhere.
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There were also over 100 ,000 trees that were knocked down.
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from the strong winds.
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I don't know if you guys live in the north in Vietnam, but I remember going outside after the storm.
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And just seeing trees everywhere.
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Like the whole...
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street, every street looked completely different.
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Because there used to be all these trees there and suddenly they were just gone.
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To me, it was a really surreal experience to go outside and just see trees literally going across the street.
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But the great thing is, is that, you know, many people were able to help to clean it up and to get them out of the way.
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So apart from the trees, there were also around 280 ,000 hectares of crops that were damaged.
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And crops are plants that you can grow to eat, like rice, for example.
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As I mentioned before, there were a ton of rescue efforts.
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There were volunteers, local authorities, rescue teams, and the People's Army of Vietnam.
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Everybody basically came together to help clean things up and to help rescue people who may have been trapped by the landslides. from the storm.
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And that's one thing that I think is amazing about Vietnam is the sense of community, right? right?
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Like something like this happens and the people get together to help each other.
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And yeah, I think that's one of the really fantastic things about Vietnam is that sense of community.
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So, as for the aftermath of the storm,
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It was one of the most expensive storms in America.
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Vietnam's history.
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The damage was around 83 trillion Vietnamese dong which in US dollars is about 3 .45 billion US dollars.
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countries also sent aid to help Vietnam.
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The US sent around one million dollars and Australia sent about two million dollars.
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So all these things help, of course.
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All in all, it was a really devastating storm.
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And to this day, people in some areas are still rebuilding
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their homes and the areas that they live in that were destroyed by the storm.
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Now, As for a personal story for you guys about the storm, I live in Hanoi.
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So this was...
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Definitely.
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the first and the worst story.
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storm I've ever experienced in Canada.
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We had an ice storm, which was a really bad ice storm.
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Like there was a lot of snow and there were power outages.
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Even my house, we had, we lost power and there was ice everywhere.
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Trees fell down and all that stuff.
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But I was only six years old.
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So I didn't really care.
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Right.
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To me, oh, it's a storm.
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Okay.
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I can stay inside and, you know, play with my Lego or something like that.
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But this, was the worst storm I've ever experienced.
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I just stayed in my apartment and kept all the doors shut and just
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waited for it to end and I feel really lucky that My whole area,
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no one around me got hurt or anything.
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Nothing was damaged too much.
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But yeah, it was quite a crazy storm.
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So yeah, guys, normally I like to make the podcast, you know, light and happy.
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But this topic was...
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you know, It's about natural disasters, so it's hard to be to have a happy natural disaster story.
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But I hope you enjoyed it.
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I hope you learned a lot of words.
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Remember that you can download the PDF for free by scanning this QR code or clicking the link below.
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And also, if you want to practice your speaking skills, then check out my pronunciation course.
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All right, I hope you enjoyed the video, and I will see you in the next one.
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About This Lesson
This lesson focuses on expanding your English vocabulary and comprehension through the fascinating true story of Tilly Smith, a young girl who predicted a tsunami in 2004. You will learn key phrases and words related to natural disasters, enhancing your language skills while engaging with a compelling narrative. By practicing with this material, you will not only increase your vocabulary but also improve your listening and speaking abilities, making it an ideal way to learn English with YouTube.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Tsunami - A large ocean wave caused by underwater earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.
- Evacuate - To remove people from a dangerous place to a safer location.
- Calm - Free from disturbance; peaceful.
- Frothy - Forming or resembling a mass of bubbles.
- Tide - The regular rise and fall of the sea level caused by the gravitational forces exerted by the moon and the sun.
- Signs of danger - Indicators that suggest a potential threat or hazard.
- Hysterical - In a state of uncontrolled excitement or emotion, often resulting in panic.
- Destruction - The action or process of causing significant damage or ruin.
Practice Tips
To effectively incorporate the shadowing technique into your practice, listen to the podcast and pay close attention to the speed and tone of the narrator. Start by listening to short sections of the podcast and repeat after the speaker, mimicking their pronunciation and intonation. This will help you create a shadow speech effect, where you echo their words almost simultaneously. It's beneficial to listen to the podcast multiple times, gradually increasing your speed as you become more confident. Make use of the shadowing site resources for guided practice and exercises that complement the video material. By integrating this method into your study routine, you will improve English pronunciation and develop a natural speaking rhythm, making your language learning experience both effective and enjoyable.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was swept · was destroyed · was contaminated |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have installed · I've also included · I've ever experienced |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | guy who was · Beach, which was · people who may |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | were walking · wasn't coming · was washing |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.